Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another implication of ( 16 ) , or ( 15 ) , is that , apart from questioning the adjective , the language would also provide a means to question the noun phrase alone while " leaving behind " the predicate qualifier ( even though one might not expect such questions to be particularly common in practice ) , and in fact such questions are perfectly grammatical : ( 21 ) who(m) did he paint seated ? what did he send registered ? |
| 2 | Yes , she was the first person who made me realise that acting was more than just speaking and doing . |
| 3 | A man who made me laugh and feel better . ’ |
| 4 | I had met many good people before who made me feel ashamed of my own shortcomings , but in the presence of this man — we never discussed anything but literary business — I did not feel ashamed . |
| 5 | I could see that Estella was still proud , and I knew that it was she who made me feel ashamed of home , and Joe , but I also knew that I could never stop loving her . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's so sad because he 's so quick , so experienced and he is the guy who made me raise my own game to come out of the blocks ahead of him . ’ |
| 7 | ( 148 ) If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied . |
| 8 | It was the matchman , Tom Boulton , who made me see sense and now I prefer adapted match tackle and tactics . |
| 9 | I thought it would have got better by itself — it was my son who made me call the doctor ’ |
| 10 | The little cunt who made me parade in front of him at eight thirty in the morning so I erm |
| 11 | Someone pretty , witty and sexy , who made him laugh and feel young and carefree . |
| 12 | Gabriel would miss the wife 's cooking and the little children , who made him feel almost a grown man . |
| 13 | He 'd never met a woman who made him feel that way , and , let's face it , he was n't getting any younger . |
| 14 | He said he knew it sounded crazy , but ever since he 'd read it he 'd wanted to experience it , but had never met a woman who made him feel that way . ’ |
| 15 | No , it was not Jenny who made him look askance at the legacy . |
| 16 | They sent for the doctor , who made him rehearse |
| 17 | Who made you love me . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm the one who made you come . ’ |
| 19 | Those who made it show all too clearly the strains of their journey . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not I , but all the lenders who made it work . ’ |
| 21 | The identity of the person who abandoned the Zodiac dinghy and therefore presumably planted the bombs has never been discovered but from the descriptions it seems fairly certain it was Bartelo from the Ouvéa , while the man who helped him get the dinghy into the water was Mafart . |
| 22 | The direction of his career , however , was finally determined by Sonia Orwell who helped him obtain a job with the World Bank in Washington . |
| 23 | He has not only tarnished his relationship with Leeds United Football Club ( the club that he owes everything to including his 2.75M price tag ) , he also shit on the manager and those players who are left at the club , who helped him win a championship medal . |
| 24 | Middlesbrough bring back Robbie Mustoe for Tommy Wright , but are otherwise unchanged , fielding most of the players who helped them win promotion last season . |
| 25 | ‘ She had enough clothes for a month , never mind a few days , ’ said one of Elizabeth 's friends , who helped them get ready for the trip . |
| 26 | I could never cook myself a meal , even with such complete mod. cons , and Hellen , who helped me arrange the furniture , pictures and scrolls , would tease me as ‘ the eternal bachelor ’ who could not fry an egg or boil water without burning it . |
| 27 | Many thanks to all those who helped me contact everybody ; we just hope no-one was missed . |
| 28 | Over the same period , Joe has been one of the players who helped it develop from its infamy as the so-called sign of a mis-spent youth to become a symbol of sporting success . |
| 29 | Who helped you prepare them ? ’ |
| 30 | It was actually who helped us get off the ground again by giving us credit on Kositos ( flaked maize ) . |